Saturday, August 15, 2015

I don't think I could ever get tired of Mexican food‏

Hello Family!!!

I am grateful yall made it to
California safely! i hope yall have a great trip! i think that sounds
awesome! Jealous yall already went to an Angels game too. Thats too bad
that they lost so badly, oh well, i bet mike trout looked cute as always
though! Also that sounds terrible about the hotel in vegas. i probably
would have rather slept out in the car, but after being in tennessee
where EVERYONE smokes, maybe i would have been used to it ;)

Well this week was a great week! but it went by wayyyyy to fast!!

First
off, i want to tell you about Aida and Jose! So they are just super
awesome and have been taught since about December. They both want to be
baptized, but they need to get married and jose needs to get divorced
from his first wife, so thats been kind of tricky, BUT the divorce
papers came in! and so hopefully in about 1-2 weeks the divorce will be
final, they will get married, and then baptized! they are both soooo
awesome. Aida has the biggest heart for everyone and just makes you feel
so loved. And jose is like a big friendly giant. We went over to their
house this last week, and Jose had caught 3 wild turkeys and 8 babies!
so we helped them move the turkeys to another cage where they will raise
them. SO much fun :) i will send you some videos, it was a blast.

Next is about Mari y Enrique

They
are getting baptized on SATURDAY!!!! yay! this is so exciting! :) they
are so awesome and soooo prepared for the gospel. its so amazing how the
Lord is truly preparing so many people to receive the restored gospel
:) They still need to be taught a couple more things, but overall they
are excited and ready to be baptized. Every lesson with them is great,
and they just know that this is Christ's true church! We are pumped for
their baptism!

Also i went on my first exchange
this week, I went to Shelbyville TN with a cute sister who only has
about 1 1/2 months on the mission, Sister Therhault. It was sooooo much
fun! we didnt have a car that day, or bikes so we got to walk walk and
walk some more in the rain :) it was really fun. i have grown a love for
tracting, i think its just soooo fun! especially when we are walking,
we have the chance to talk to sooo many people :) We tracted into one
family, and they are so nice and kind! the dad used to be taught by the
missionaries but stopped after a little bit. He is super nice, but he
had to get his voice box thingy taken out from smoking, and so he had
one of those holes in his throat, and he did have a cover over it... you
could like see all the way down his throat. at first i was freaked out! i
probably had the worst look on my face, BUT after a while i got used to
it. Then he got a drink and started drinking and i was terrified it was
going to like seep out of his throat of something, but it didnt :) so
that was good. haha Sister Therhault is from Bakersfield California, and
is so sweet. She is pretty shy, but has a heart of gold and has the
desire to be the best missionary in the field! i know that one day she
will! Also, on our exchange the ward mission leader and his wife (the
relief society president) came out to a couple of lessons with us. They
are both really awesome, and supppper young. like 24 years old. buuuut
The husband he works for nissan, and he was able to lease nissans sports
car, a GTR or something like that for 6 months, and so we got to drive
in it on thursday night. it was SO awesome. I had never reallly driven
in a sports car before, they are really small, but also so much fun. It
was a great exchange but i was happy to come back to hermitage and be
with hermana dansie.

So
one of the less active members in our area is living in a hotel. A very
sketchy hotel...like everyone who lives there drinks like bad and smoke
things that shouldn't be smoked.... like its worse than that awful
place we stayed at in Kansas City, comfort suites! Well the A/C broke in
her room and so her room was basically a sauna! HOT! HUMID! and GROSS!
Well because she has been living there for 3 months she got really sick.
Like really sick. Hermana Dansie and I were out with a member and we
felt like we should go see her. We went to see her and good thing the
member was with us because he gave her blessing! I am so grateful for
the priesthood! Then the branch got on it right away! She got a new
hotel room with working A/C WOOT!!! And the good thing is now she wont
be dying of breathing 2nd hand marijuana smoke! And neither will we when
we go visit her! We went and helped her move all her stuff over,..i
hope she finds somewhere to live soon, because that hotel is messed up.

Friday we had an AWESOME Zone
Conference. I am just so thankful for President and Sister Andersen.
They are seriously so amazing and I feel so blessed to have them as my
mission president and wife. We learned a lot at zone conference, and it
really gave me that energy and desire to get out and get to work. One of
our main focuses was having the faith to do. This really stuck out to
me. There are 2 types of faith. the faith to try, and the faith to do.
This really hit me and made me think about what kind of faith i truly
have. I hope that i can always have the faith to DO! to do what is
needed to be done, to have faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement, to
have the faith to align my desires with Gods, and then to have the faith
to work with all my heart, might, mind, and strength with unfailing
determination. :) i know that this is the kind of faith that Nephi had,
and Alma and if i want to be a successful missionary like them, I must
DO like them :)

Okay i am sorry that this is
like the longest email EVER, but i just have one more thing to tell yall
about! So, we went and saw the Cardiel family yesterday ( the part
member family, and the husband has been investigating for church for 10
YEARS) and we had like the best lesson EVER with them. This family is
amazing. I love them so much. We decided to talk about goals and all
set our own spiritual goals. We set goals for 10 years from now, where
we want to be spiritually, and then goals from 1-2 years from now that
will help us reach our 10 year goals, and then we set goals for this
week that will help us reach our 1-2 year goals. it was incredible. It
was so cool to go around the table and all share our spiritual goals.
The best was when we got to the dad, mario His goals were 1 to be
baptized 2 be sealed with is family in the temple and 3 serving a
mission with his wife. WHAT!!! How incredible is that? I really feel
like this activity helped him get a vision and helped him realize what
he needs to be doing NOW to get where he wants to be :)

Okay sorry to drag on and on and on! But this week was a great week :)

I
hope you all have so much fun this week in Cali! Enjoy the beach for me
and watch out for those sharks! I love you all so much and i am so
thankful for the chance i have to serve as a missionary and for my
amazing family who supports me so much. I love yall so much! Les quiero
MUCHO!!